Render Project introduction and overview

RENDER Project introduction and overview

Outline

o The ideao The peopleo The projecto The work

The idea

Information management on the Web

“We’ve gained so much in the digital age. We get more entertainmentchoices, and finding what we’re looking for is certainly fast. Best of all,much of it is free. But we’ve lost something as well: the fortunatediscovery of something we never knew we wanted to find. In otherwords the digital age is stamping our serendipity. [ ] Ah, the techies say,no worries. We have Facebook and Twitter, spewing a stream ofsuggestions about what to read, hear, see and do. We come to depend onit to lead us to the funny article on TheOnion.com or the roving food cartserving goat curry. It’s useful. [ ] and there is just too much information.We can have thousands of people sending us suggestions each day –some useful, some not. We have to read them, sort them and act uponthem.[ ] Everything we need to know comes filtered and vetted. We arediscovering what everyone else is learning, and usually from people wehave selected because they share our tastes”

(NY Times, August, 2 2009)

Collaboration on the Web

Why RENDER?

o The challenges of today’s Web• purposefully access, process and manage

information, whilst remaining true to its design principles, and leveraging diversity

o Comprehensive solutions needed• infrastructure to store and access information• methods and techniques to make sense out of it• paradigms underlying the processes of Web-

based information provision and consumption

o Information management methods and techniques do not reflect the plurality of opinions and viewpoints expressed on the Web.

• filtering, aggregation and summarization, ranking, presentation

o This affects the quality of the information management services offered, and hampers true collaboration

What will RENDER do about it?

o Develop methods, techniques, software and data sets that will leverage diversity as a crucial source of innovation and creativity.

• scale to very large amounts of data and hundreds of thousands of users, but also to a plurality of points of views and opinions

• realistic data sets• open source extensions to popular communication and collaboration platforms

(MediaWiki, WordPress)

o RENDER’s results will be showcased • diversity-aware Wikipedia• diversity-minded access to journalistic content• novel customer management support in global enterprises.

RENDER will help realize a world where information is acquired and shared in afundamentally different manner than the consensual approach promoted bymovements such as Web 2.0, and where communication and collaboration acrossthe borders of social, cultural or professional communities are truly enabled viaadvanced Web technology, supporting one of the credos of European society:“United in diversity”.

The overall picture

The people

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Contributions to the project

The project

Some figures

o STREP with a duration of 3 yearso 7 partners from 5 countrieso With a budget of 4.193.565 !o Coordinated by KITo 384 person months ~ 32 person yearso 7 work packages o 54 deliverables

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The work

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More information

Official Project Website

http://www.render-project.eu

Project Coordinator Dr. Elena Simperl

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany elena.simperl @kit.edu